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Æ19 - Augustus L ΞϚ, 𐤌 (to r.)
| Issuer | Gaza (Judaea) |
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| Year | 5-6 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse lettering | Γ-Α |
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| Reverse script | Greek/Phoenician |
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Gaza maintained its civic coinage through the early imperial period with unusual independence for a Judaean coastal city, dating issues by its own local era rather than the Roman imperial calendar. The year L ΞϚ places this piece in 5–6 AD, struck just as Judaea was being absorbed into direct Roman provincial administration following the deposition of Archelaus — a political upheaval that triggered the census of Quirinius and, with it, the revolt of Judas of Galilee.
The Semitic letter mem (𐤌) appearing on the coinage likely denotes a mint magistrate or civic official, a convention borrowed from Hellenistic civic practice that Gaza preserved long after neighboring mints abandoned it.